This time from Jeanne in California:
I remember learning way back in high school civics about how hard the founding fathers worked to ensure that one party would always be in control, even if those moody voters wanted something else.
Once again, Republicans are standing up for our traditional values.
You will enjoy the rest of her post.
How does one Austin Citizen feel about the new plan:
I can now look for new and exciting ways that the needs of somebody in East Austin perfectly fits together in Madisonian enlightened self-interest with those of a guy 300 miles away in Rio Grande City, on the Texas-Mexico border. Ditto to my North Austin neighbors, who must have so much in common with the suburbs in the west of Houston, nearly 150 miles away.
You have done the citizens of Texas proud in ways that I cannot count. May the weight of a thousand appellate briefs be placed on pressure points around your genitalia for the rest of eternity.
Plenty more detail at the Burnt Orange Report here and in preceding posts.
Nitpicker has found some positive messages in the California results. For instance:
People want a hero. Even if he only plays one in the movies. I think this bodes well for Wesley Clark and badly for “Off to Offut” Bush.
Go read the rest.
As a follow up to last night’s Late Night Reading take a look at Doug Giebel’s article Ending America as We Know It which opens:
The neo-conservative Bush Administration “plan” to remake our American nation intends to alter forever the relationship between government, business and the people.
In the summation to his arguments Giebel asserts:
Americans are being played for suckers by a carnival of macho scam artists, the likes of which this nation has never before experienced.
You read it, you judge.
Via Talkleft.
From a recent Newsweek article:
The United States figures it can get plenty out of the newly captured Chemical Ali. But how? And are these �interrogation� techniques being readied for American citizens?
Apparently they are already being used on Americans. Read the whole article and then think again about the closing paragraph:
If the courts buy this line of argument, then we Americans can kiss our sweet rights goodbye. And reading the admiral�s brief, you have to ask yourself if that isn�t really the goal: to give the president and his people the power to treat all Americans like Jos� Padilla, unless and until we give the answers expected of us.